Les Fables de Jean de La Fontaine sont un recueil de fables écrites en vers, publiées entre 1668 et 1694. Ce livre est considéré comme l'une des œuvres les plus importantes de la littérature française. Il est composé de plus de 200 fables, qui sont des histoires courtes qui enseignent une morale à travers l'utilisation d'animaux comme personnages. Les fables de La Fontaine sont encore lues et étudiées aujourd'hui pour leur style poétique...

9) The lion and the rat: a fable

Author

La Fontaine, Jean de

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Pub. Date

1963.

Language

English

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A retelling of the La Fontaine fable in which a small rat is the only animal capable of saving the life of the King of the Beasts.

10) Selected fables: a dual-language book = Fables choisies

Author

La Fontaine, Jean de

Publisher

Dover Publications

Pub. Date

1997.

Language

English

11) The complete fables of La Fontaine: a new translation in verse

Author

La Fontaine, Jean de

Series

Arcade Classics

Publisher

Arcade Pub

Pub. Date

[2008]

Language

English

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In this wonderful, vigorously contemporary translation, Craig Hill has captured the liveliness, satiric wit, and poetic beauty that made Jean de la Fontaine famous during his lifetime and his Fables celebrated as a masterwork of world literature ever since. Despite la Fontaine’s deceptively modest claim that all he intended was to put the moral tales of Aesop and other ancient fabulists into poetry for the pleasure of Louis XIV’s young son, his...

12) Selected fables

Author

La Fontaine, Jean de

Series

Dover Dual Language French

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Pub. Date

2014.

Language

English

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La Fontaine's verse fables turned the traditional folktales derived from Aesop and a range of Oriental sources into some of the greatest, and best-loved, poetic works in French. His versions of stories such as The Hare and the Tortoise and The Wolf and the Lamb are witty and sophisticated, satirizing human nature in miniature dramas in which the outcome is always unpredictable. The behavior of both animals and humans is usually centered on deception...

13) The rich man and the shoemaker: a fable

Author

Watts, Bernadette

Publisher

North-South Books

Pub. Date

2002.

Language

English

Description

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When a wealthy neighbor tempts him with a chest full of riches, a poor but cheerful shoemaker is so burdened with worry about his wealth that he decides to return it.

14) The hare and the tortoise and other fables of La Fontaine

Author

Bolt, Ranjit

Publisher

Barefoot Books

Pub. Date

2006.

Language

English

15) Doré's illustrations for the Fables of La Fontaine

Author

Doré, Gustave

Series

Dover pictorial archive

Publisher

Dover Publications

Pub. Date

2003.

Language

English

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At the height of his powers, Doré produced these magnificent illustrations for La Fontaine's Fables. This volume includes all 84 full-page plates plus a selection of 39 vignettes from a rare, early edition and depicts, among others, scenes from "The Wolf and the Lamb," "Tircis and Amarante," and "Ulysses' Companions."